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by codyb 2909 days ago
Wow, the amount facebook knows about me is staggering little.

The four groups I’m in are all related to using a mobile device or wi-fi.

I’m pleasantly surprised but it appears deleting all of my content, unfollowing every person on my feed, not logging in except on incognito windows and very infrequently at best, and using ad blockers has effectively stymied facebook’s ability to establish a good notion of who I am beyond the most extreme basics.

I still use messenger although I try to use encrypted messages when I can, but they don’t mine that for advertising information according to their user policy. Not sure if they mine it for anything else.

Either way, good.